"Changing legal definitions of minority rights and nationhood in written constitutions"
Workshops, conferences 2018
- Beginn: 15.12.2017
- Ende: 16.12.2017
- Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
- Raum: Library Hall
For more details please contact esser(at)mmg.mpg.de.
Friday, December 15, 2017
9:30 Welcome and Introduction
9:45 Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen) & Kiyoteru Tsutsui (University of Michigan): “Changing legal definitions of minority rights and nationhood in written constitutions”
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 John Skrentny (University of California San Diego): “Constitutional law and the minority rights revolution – the US and Canada”
Discussant: Ran Hirschl (University of Göttingen)
12:30 Lunch (Bistro Cichon, Nikolausberger Weg 43)
14:00 Menaka Guruswamy (Columbia University): “Minorities in India and Pakistan – secular and theocratic constitutionalism”
Discussant: Naheed Samour (Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
15:00 Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago, skype session): “Minority rights, federalism and constitutional reform in Nepal and Myanmar”
Discussant: Eugénie Mérieau (University of Göttingen)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Mirjam Künkler (Käte-Hamburger Kolleg Bonn) & Julia Leininger (German Institute for Development Studies): “Minority rights in the aftermath of the Cold War – Indonesia and Senegal in comparative perspective”
17:30 Interim discussion and closure
Saturday, December 16, 2017
9:30 Heinz Klug (University of Minnesota): “Minority protections in Southern Africa”
Discussant: Jeffrey Swindle (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Alexander Osipov (European Minority Rights Centre, ECMI): “Are communist legacies at odds with the recent global trends in minority protection? Diversity issues in the constitutions of Russia and Ukraine”
Discussant: Michael Hein (University of Göttingen)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Concluding discussion